Bakht Khan

Bakht Khan (1797-13 May 1859) was the commander-in-chief of the Indian rebel forces in Delhi during the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny.

Biography
Bakht Khan was born in Bijnor, Mughal Empire (in present-day Uttar Pradesh, India) in 1797 to a Muslim Pashtun family, and he served in the East India Company's Bengal Horse Artillery for 40 years and saw action in the First Anglo-Afghan War. While he was very fond of English society, he became a leader of the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny, and he was made commander-in-chief of the Indian rebel army in the Delhi region. His leadership could not compensate for his army's lack of organization, supplies, and military strength, however, and he fled to Lucknow and then Shahjahanpur after Delhi's fall on 20 September 1857. He was killed at Buner in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 1859.